A study of sentential logic, including translation, semantics, decision procedures and natural deduction followed by an introduction to predicate logic, concentrating on translation. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 220.
Spring Term 2022 Fall Term 2022 Winter Term 2023Elementary methods and principles for analyzing reasoning as it occurs in everyday contexts. Topics may include informal fallacies, introduction to scientific method, elementary statistical reasoning, elementary sentential logic, as well as the study of argument in contemporary debates about issues of social concern.
Fall Term 2022An introduction to the central issues in contemporary philosophy of science. Topics may include theory evaluation, paradigm shifts and theory change, laws of nature, causation and explanation, the rationality of science and its social and historical setting.
Fall Term 2022 Winter Term 2023A study of the formal theory of rationality including probability and induction, and elementary decision theory, with attention to the paradoxes of choice.
Winter Term 2023